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Lawyers Weekly
2009 IN REVIEW Across the board: Robert Milliner, Mallesons Stephen Jaques
The year has thrown up some unique challenges and opportunities for law firms and lawyers, as will the year to come. Lawyers Weekly speaks with industry leaders across the legal spectrum about…
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Lawyers Weekly
2009 IN REVIEW Key trends in the legal profession
The past year had seen some significant changes to the legal profession, blighted by the ominous storm clouds of the global financial crisis, changes in technology, and legislative moves. We…
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Lawyers Weekly
2009 IN REVIEW Key trends: Big firms place freeze on salaries
Lawyers have long enjoyed healthy year-on-year salary increases, however 2009 saw a change in fortunes with the advent of the global financial crisis. <tbo
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Lawyers Weekly
2009 IN REVIEW Key trends: Workplace relations tug of war
Workplace relations has become a tug of war policy area for the Coalition and Labor Governments, with both parties pushing through numerous sweeping legislative and regulatory changes in line…
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Lawyers Weekly
2009 IN REVIEW Key trends: Mental health issues come to the fore
Although the high incidence of depression amongst lawyers in private practice has been highlighted as an issue for some time now, 2009 saw some strong commitments from law firms to structurally…
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Lawyers Weekly
2009 IN REVIEW Key trends: The shift to lawyers with business minds
With a tight legal market igniting pressures on law firms to live up to the expectations of their clients, lawyers with "entrepreneurial" and better advisory skills became a hot asset in 2009.…
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Lawyers Weekly
2009 IN REVIEW Key trends: Alternative billing methods gain momentum
With law firms under pressure from clients to better meet their needs, 2009 saw little slowdown on debates over billable hours, while alternative billing arrangements also gathered momentum. …
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Lawyers Weekly
2009 IN REVIEW Key trends: Too many city lawyers highlights rural shortage
The shortage of lawyers in rural Australia was further exacerbated in 2009, especially given the fact that redundancies across metropolitan firms highlighted the vast resourcing differences…
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Lawyers Weekly
2009 IN REVIEW Key trends: Speaking out about outsourcing
Outsourcing is slowly becoming par for the course for UK law firms, but in 2009, the path in Australia was trod more cautiously - and quietly.
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